Precipitating Precipitation

With the exception of getting caught in showers that arrived ahead of schedule a few Mondays ago, I’m usually the model of trepidation and will substitute to a more conventional means of transport if the word on the weathermap is water’s to fall. Of course with such avoidance tactics, most of those times I’m left behind the wheel of my truck stuck in traffic and grumbling because the clouds never open up either as expected or at all.

Thus it was when the alarms started sounding yesterday that Los Angeles could be in for a series of storms that could combine to be the heaviest to hit town in many years beginning as early as today and going through Sunday, I did two things:

1) I immediately pffft’d the prognosticatings because when the weatherfolk start getting all excited that some storm’s a sure thing or gonna be huge, it usually finds a way not to be all that.

2) Decided to drive to work just in case they nail it this time.

But when I woke up this morning, I took a good look at the brightening sky while moving the trashcans to the curb and didn’t see roiling clouds. Then I took a deep exploratory sniff of the air and I didn’t smell rain. And bonus: my right knee wasn’t achy. I hemmed and hawed and pro’d and con’d and while the wise part of me was saying “just take the truck,” the gambler inside reminded me of how aggravated I was last time I played it safe and such caution was all for naught.

So I’m rolling the dice and riding in. Here’s hoping I beat the odds.

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Will

Will Campbell arrived in town via the maternity ward at Good Sam Hospital way back in OneNineSixFour and has never stopped calling Los Angeles home. Presently he lives in Silver Lake with his wife Susan, their cat Rocky, dogs Terra and Hazel, and a red-eared slider turtle named Mater. Blogging since 2001, Will's web endeavors extend back to 1995 with laonstage.com, a comprehensive theater site that was well received but ever-short on capital (or a business model). The pinnacle of his online success (which speaks volumes) arrived in 1997, when much to his surprise, a hobby site he'd built called VisuaL.A. was named "best website" in Los Angeles magazine's annual "Best of L.A." issue. He enjoys experiencing (and writing about) pretty much anything creative, explorational and/or adventurous, loves his ebike, is a better tennis player than he is horr golfer, and a lover of all creatures great and small -- emphasis on "all."